(a) Any person seventeen (17) years of age or
older has sexual intercourse with a child who:

(i) Is at least fourteen (14) but under seventeen
(17) years of age;

(ii) Is thirty-six (36) or more months younger
than the person; and

(iii) Is not the person's spouse; or

(b) A person of any age has sexual intercourse
with a child who:

(i) Is under the age of fourteen (14) years;

(ii) Is twenty-four (24) or more months younger
than the person; and

(iii) Is not the person's spouse.

(2) Neither the victim's consent nor the
victim's lack of chastity is a defense to a charge of statutory rape.

(3) Upon conviction for statutory rape, the
defendant shall be sentenced as follows:

(a) If eighteen (18) years of age or older, but
under twenty-one (21) years of age, and convicted under subsection (1)(a) of
this section, to imprisonment for not more than five (5) years in the State
Penitentiary or a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or
both;

(b) If twenty-one (21) years of age or older and
convicted under subsection (1)(a) of this section, to imprisonment of not more
than thirty (30) years in the State Penitentiary or a fine of not more than Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both, for the first offense, and not more
than forty (40) years in the State Penitentiary for each subsequent offense;

(c) If eighteen (18) years of age or older and
convicted under subsection (1)(b) of this section, to imprisonment for life in
the State Penitentiary or such lesser term of imprisonment as the court may
determine, but not less than twenty (20) years;

(d) If thirteen (13) years of age or older but
under eighteen (18) years of age and convicted under subsection (1)(a) or
(1)(b) of this section, such imprisonment, fine or other sentence as the court,
in its discretion, may determine.

(4) (a)
Every person who shall have forcible sexual intercourse with any person,
or who shall have sexual intercourse not constituting forcible sexual
intercourse or statutory rape with any person without that person's consent by
administering to such person any substance or liquid which shall produce such
stupor or such imbecility of mind or weakness of body as to prevent effectual
resistance, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned for life in the State
Penitentiary if the jury by its verdict so prescribes; and in cases where the
jury fails to fix the penalty at life imprisonment, the court shall fix the
penalty at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for any term as the court, in
its discretion, may determine.

(b) This subsection (4) shall apply whether the
perpetrator is married to the victim or not.

(5)
In all cases where a victim is under the age of sixteen (16) years, it
shall not be necessary to prove penetration where it is shown the genitals,
anus or perineum of the child have been lacerated or torn in the attempt to
have sexual intercourse with the child.

(6)
For the purposes of this section, "sexual intercourse" shall
mean a joining of the sexual organs of a male and female human being in which
the penis of the male is inserted into the vagina of the female.

SECTION
2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after July 1, 2007.